Aarogya Setu

The aarogya setu App will now display your vaccination status after verifying the same with the CoWIN portal. In the long run, displaying fully vaccinated status on this App could be a tamper-proof way of proving the same for purposes like travel.

The government on Monday issued a set of guidelines to be followed for data processing of aarogya setu app users and added a few clauses that may lead to imprisonment of persons found guilty of violating certain norms. The new rules prohibit storage of data beyond 180 days and enable individuals to seek deletion of their data from the government's aarogya setu related record within 30 days of raising the request.

The World Health Organisation has lauded India's aarogya setu mobile application for helping health departments to identify Covid clusters. "aarogya setu app from India has been downloaded by 150m users and has helped city public health departments to identify areas where clusters could be anticipated and expand testing in a targeted way," WHO said.

To use the aarogya setu app, users need to register with their phone number, name, location and gender.

aarogya setu app does not give out a loud siren when a COVID-19 patient approaches us. Reports claiming this are fake.

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) has decided to make it mandatory for passengers to display the aarogya setu app on a smartphone before entering stations, whenever the utility resumes operations.

The government on Friday released the backend code of aarogya setu in the open domain that will help people understand the functioning of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app and allay apprehensions they may have around privacy and security.

The Central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched aarogya setu app on April 1 to track the coronavirus cases across the country.

The controversy that aarogya setu can be used as a “surveillance system” continued on Friday. Hacker Elliot Alderson reiterated how the contact tracing app was dangerous in a series of tweets. Digital rights advocacy group, Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), wrote to Parliament's standing committee for information technology, asking for an "urgent" hearing in the matter.

NITI Aayog has created a platform called AarogyaSetu Mitr that aims to offer free tele-consultation for patients who may have COVID-19 like symptoms, along with services like home collection of samples for diagnostics and medicine delivery at home. This platform is created between public and private collaboration.

The government of India has announced a new Open API Service for aarogya setu app to allow businesses and organisations to have more control over health status of their employees during this ongoing situation.

The Karnataka high court on Monday restrained the central government and National Informatics Centre (NIC) from sharing data obtained from users of aarogya setu app unless express consent has been obtained from users to share the data.

After launching the aarogya setu mobile app for Android and iOS, the government has now launched aarogya setu IVRS service for feature phone and landline users. It is a toll-free service, where citizens are asked to give a missed call to the number 1921 and they will get a call back requesting for inputs regarding their health.

aarogya setu, a government app developed for tracking Covid-19 patients, has become the most downloaded healthcare application and also featured among the top 10 downloaded apps in the world in April, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Friday. Close to nine crore users had downloaded the aarogya setu mobile application till May 4.

aarogya setu is currently available on iOS and Android, and nearly 9 crore users have already downloaded the app, which has now been made mandatory for government and private sector employees, as part of nationwide efforts to combat the spread of coronavirus.

The government has released the source code of aarogya setu Android app on GitHub.

The government’s official Covid-19 app aarogya setu is mandatory to travel in 15 special trains that started operating from today (May 12).

The Union government on Friday informed the Karnataka high court that aarogya setu app is optional — and not mandatory — for air and train travel as its latest guidelines in this regard are advisory in nature.

According to a tweet by the official Twitter handle of aarogya setu, the app has 100 million users across the country.

Seeking modifications to aarogya setu app, Telangana Chemists and Druggists Association (TCDA) demanded the Centre to delink the aarogyasetumitr.in extension in the app, claiming that AarogyaSetuMitr is promoting online pharmacies.

Citing the example of the app, a World Bank report released on Sunday said innovative solutions could greatly help educate and track contagion across the populations at large. Global tech majors Apple and Google said on Saturday that they were building a software into smartphones that would help in contact tracing and inform users whether they were in touch with Covid-19 infected persons.

The government on Tuesday announced opening the source code of its coronavirus tracking app, aarogya setu, for scrutiny by the developer community to address privacy concerns and launching a bug bounty programme for finding security flaws. NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant asserted that no other government in the world has been open source at this scale.

aarogya setu, the government's mobile application developed to track Covid-19 patients, has emerged as a powerful tool to curb the spread of the virus as it helped alert authorities about more than 650 hotspots across the country and over 300 "emerging hotspots" which could have been missed otherwise, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said.